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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.30 09:58:00 -
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It's nice to have some company in immortality. If the setup cost for the technology the troopers are using can be brought down it might soon be viable to introduce its widespread use in ship senior officers, fighter pilots and other high-value personnel.
Get it cheap enough, we might even be able to issue it to the whole crew and replace the evacuation systems with damage control systems and ablative internal plating. That's probably not realistic in the short term, but technology historically gets cheaper with use.
Picture it - a human society where dying is optional. We'd start making real progress then.
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.30 13:39:00 -
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Aquila Shadow wrote:Stitcher wrote:
Picture it - a human society where dying is optional. We'd start making real progress then.
Or we could tear our self's apart and leave New Eden as lifeless as the void. Lets face it if we use capsuleers as a measure of how we use immortal technology it doesn't bode well for the future.
It's a big universe, and there are always rough patches whenever the paradigm shifts. All progress is a calculated risk, and as unfortunate as it will doubtless end up being for individuals, I can only picture humanity benefiting.
We've had the technology to extinct ourselves for centuries now and it hasn't happened yet, I don't see any reason why making death an expense rather than the termination of your existence should make the annihilation of humanity in this cluster any more likely. Quite the reverse.
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.30 15:00:00 -
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Aquila Shadow wrote:If humanity was suddenly free of the limitations of mortality our baser instincts will inevitably take hold.
That's an assertion, not a conclusion, and with the entire rest of your comment being founded on that non-sequitur I feel I must challenge you to demonstrate that this would, in fact, be the case.
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.30 17:42:00 -
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Aquila Shadow wrote:One need only read the history book to know that mankind has always felt the need for violence.
Sure, but that's not what you said. What you said was that immortality would "inevitably" cause our base instincts to take over.
And now you just said that these same instincts have apparently been in control this whole time anyway. So, which is it, are things going to get worse (in which case, you need to prove it) or are things going to remain basically the same? (in which case, where's the problem?)
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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